Interpreting Cities: Creative Urban Photography at 3 Scales

Creative urban photographers have a way of representing cities in new and different lights. Unusual urban photographs can cause one to rethink familiar perspectives and can open a city up to new interpretations. The above urban typography close-ups cleverly play on both the two-dimensionality of text (and photography) and the vertical three-dimensionality of the urban environment.

Finally, space exploration has introduced a radically different perspective on the world and its urban populations – from far above the Earth’s surface. The above image shows quite directly the distribution of cities on the planet, more simply and profoundly than a graph or chart could. You can also see a compelling full-sized version of this image or see more Earth-from-space images from NASA.